PlayDHD: Permission to Play, A Prescription for Adults with ADHD
Publisher: Book Baby
Published: 2016
Place of publication: United States
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780997004502
Description: Play is the pathway to being an ADHD superstar! Consider all of the famous people who have ADHD- Einstein, Adam Levine, Michael Phelps, Jim Carey, Malcomb Forbes and Shane Victorino, to name a few. All known for being playful in their own way. If you are an adult with ADHD, this book is your prescription to play. This book focuses on how developing a more playful mindset and habit of engaging in playful activities can actually help you to manage symptoms and excel with ADHD. It's likely that you were never encouraged to play to meet your potential, much less to have fun in an effort to be more creative, happy, energetic, and productive. After a lifetime of being urged to "stop goofing off" and to "take things more seriously," Dr. Milliken offers scientific evidence that play is actually what you need to better manage your difficulties with attention. ADHD is a serious problem. But your approach to it doesn't have to be. PlayDHD: Permission to Play ... A Prescription for Adults with ADHD is written for adults with ADHD as well as for those who just want to remember how to play more. This is one book you will actually be able to say you read all the way through! With scientific evidence, humorous anecdotes, playful activities, short passages, and color graphics, this book captures and holds the attention of even the most unfocused mind.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Introduction; title: About the Book; title: Who the Heck Is Dr. Milliken?; title: Who This Book Is For; title: Are You Ready to Play?; title: 1.; title: All about ADHD; title: So, What Really Is ADHD?; title: Taking the Mystery out of What’s Happening in Your ADHD Brain; title: It’s All Your Family’s Fault!; title: The Noggin; title: Transmission; title: What’s in a Diagnosis?; title: Symptoms (Both Formal Symptoms and What the Rest of Us Know To Be True); title: That’s ADHD?; title: Other “Soft” Signs; title: Symptoms Can Make You Special; title: Do You Have ADHD?; title: 2.; title: Play vs. Work and ADHD; title: Keep It to Yourself; title: Why We Stop Playing; title: Play Is Sometimes Just Fun!; title: Proof That Play Can Make You an ADHD Superstar; title: Programmed to Play…But Rewired to “Work Hard”; title: Beating the Work-Harder Troll into Submission; title: 3.; title: Remembering How to Be Playful; title: It’s All in Your Mind(set); title: Quiz: Which One Are You?; title: Would You in a Box, in your Sox, with a Fox?; title: Getting in the Habit Loop; title: All Work and No Play…Makes Jan a Dull Girl; title: Bored to…Idears?; title: 4.; title: The Way-Back Play Machine; title: Taking a Play History; title: Play Personalities; title: ADHD Players Throughout History; title: 5.; title: Ready, Set…PLAY!; title: Winging it; title: Your Playlist; title: The BAP (Big Audacious Play); title: Outside In; title: Playing Well with Others; title: Kidding Around; title: 6.; title: Let’s Talk About Sex; title: Get Kinky—Or Not (Partner Play); title: Finding a Playmate; title: 7.; title: Gamify Anything; title: Gamifying Dreaded Tasks; title: There’s an App for That; title: 8.; title: Your Personal Playlist; title: Everyday Life (Anywhere, with Anyone or No One at All).; title: Partner Play; title: Child’s Play; title: Snap! The Job’s a Game!; title: Stealth Play; title: 9.; title: Always End with an Action Plan; title: Sources